Cold War developments sometimes proved significant in this respect. Neither a state nor even perhaps a genuine colony, it had the scope to devise creative solutions to whatever problems it might encounter. Hong Kong was and is, as Prasenjit Duara points out in this volume, a place that escaped from the boundaries and constraints of the nation-state, one with the potential to trigger novel and perhaps hybrid institutional arrangements, tailored to its own circumstances, that might ultimately provide models for an increasingly globalized and interdependent world, one where the ways that states functioned were being adapted to meet changing demands.
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